Today in the MHSAA: 2/22/19

February 22, 2019

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

More league championships were awarded Thursday as boys basketball teams finished up their regular season and girls teams closed in on the final week of theirs – and we’re also glad to especially highlight an impressive United Sports effort that brought more than 250 athletes to Novi.

1. Unified Basketball: Novi and the Kensington Lakes Activities Association hosted 10 schools for a league tournament that showcased the growing Unified Sports effort – Detroit News

2. Boys Basketball: Canton downed Howell 78-58 to clinch the Kensington Lakes Activities Association Tournament championship – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

3. Boys Basketball: Walled Lake Northern earned the inaugural Lakes Valley Conference Tournament title with a 29-26 win over White Lake Lakeland – State Champs!

4. Girls Basketball: A big win over Memphis helped Harbor Beach earn a share of the Greater Thumb Conference East title – Huron Daily Tribune

5. Girls Basketball: St. Ignace defeated Cheboygan to clinch the outright Straits Area Conference championship – The Upbeat

6. Boys Basketball: Otsego finished the regular season 20-0 with a 75-61 win over Sturgis in the Wolverine Conference championship game – JoeInsider.com

7. Boys Basketball: Bear Lake’s Trey Gilbert scored 50 points in a 71-48 win over Baldwin to go over 1,000 for his career – Manistee News Advocate

8. Boys Basketball: Pellston secured the outright Ski Valley Conference title with a 54-39 win over Gaylord St. Mary – Petoskey News-Review

9. Boys Basketball: Ovid-Elsie downed New Lothrop 48-28 to secure the outright Mid-Michigan Activities Conference title – Owosso Argus-Press

10. Boys Basketball: Kyle Hulett went over 1,000 career points with 31 for Byron in a 74-72 win over Mount Morris – Flint Journal

Also of note …

Boys Basketball: New Haven’s Romeo Weems, Detroit Renaissance’s Chandler Turner, Canton’s B. Artis White and Westland John Glenn’s Joe Moon were named finalists for the Mr. Basketball Award – State Champs!

Boys Basketball: Gladstone downed Kingsford, but Kingsford’s Tyler Beauchamp became the program’s all-time leading scorer and teammate Luke Terrian scored his 1,000th point – Iron Mountain Daily News

Boys Basketball: From Tuesday, Hale defeated Posen to claim its third straight North Star League Little Dipper title – WBKB

Today in the MHSAA: 12/16/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

December 16, 2025

1. BOYS BASKETBALL Iron Mountain hung on for a 72-66 overtime win over Ishpeming, with Brayden Kassin scoring 48 points – Upper Michigan’s Source

2. GIRLS BASKETBALL Midland used a big third quarter to pull away from Hartland 53-47 – Midland Daily News

3. GIRLS BASKETALL Saginaw Nouvel Catholic Central earned first-year coach Ashton Cooper his first win, 51-33 over Coleman – Saginaw News

4. BOYS BASKETBALL Unionville-Sebewaing won its first matchup with Bay City All Saints in a decade, 53-49 – Bay City Times

5. ICE HOCKEY Romeo held on for a 3-2 win over Rochester Hills Stoney Creek – Macomb Daily

6. GIRLS BASKETBALL Concord found its shooting touch during the second half of a 49-36 win over Hanover-Horton – Jackson Citizen Patriot

7. GIRLS BASKETBALL Troy improved to 3-0 with a 36-27 win over Birmingham Seaholm – Oakland Press

8. ICE HOCKEY Downriver Unified avenged a November 7-5 loss to Riverview/Cabrini with a 7-5 win – Southgate News-Herald

9. BOYS BASKETBALL Bear Lake improved to 5-1 with a 49-28 victory over Leland – MI Sports Now

10. GIRLS BASKETBALL Negaunee downed Calumet 54-34 – My UP Now